Lenovo (HKG:0992) is betting a least some customers will with releases of the ThinkPad 25 laptop. Several sources who have published leaked images of the new version of the retro laptop suggest Lenovo will unveil it in October.

That will be 25 years since IBM first introduced the ThinkPad in 1992. Revolutionary for its time, it became popular among small business users immediately.

According to the reports, the iconic look of the original ThinkPad will serve as an inspiration for the look and feel of Lenovo’s new version. The image above was distributed two years ago by Lenovo when this idea was first floated. And leaked images show a very similar design.

Here’s the tweet from the German publisher originally leaking the images of the new ThinkPad 25:

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I don’t know about going back to the future. How can you go back if you will go to the future. And knowing what customers will want is a hit or miss. It takes brains like that of Elon Musk to really predict the future.

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